The Question Settled. a Careful Comparison of Biblical and Modern Spiritualism. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and dryeth up, so man lieth down and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep."--Job xiv. 10-12. Until the heavens be no more is the longest time he could fix. If this text is true, man never can come out of the grave; for the graves where men sleep are all in the earth: but, when the heavens pass away, earth with all its graves passes too. John says, --" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away: and there was no more sea."--Rev. xxi. 1. Again: he says, " And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them."--Rev. xx. 11. Now, we submit, that if heaven, and earth with all its cemeteries filled with dead bodies, is gone so that it can not be found, and the dead are not raised out of the earth until after that time, as Job asserts, the chance for the resurrection of dead bodies is so small, that we do not wonder that Watts said, --" Great God, on what a slender thread Hang all eternal things " Jesus, in his conversation with the Sadducees, proves the doctrine of the resurrection by the fact that God was said to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, after they had been dead several hundred years. " But," said he, " God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: " so all these patriarchs are alive. His words are, --."Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; for he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto...